Jaguars, Eagles and Feathered Serpents: Mesoamerica Re-explored An Homage to Michael Coe

This conference will be held at California State University Los Angeles.   I will update with more details as they become available.     Friday, April 12, 2013 8:00 am           Registration 9:30 am           Opening Remarks 9:45 am           Leonardo López Luján (INAH) Urban Archaeology in Downtown Mexico City and the Proyecto Templo Mayor 10:15 am         Saburo Sugiyama (Arizona State […]

John MD Pohl to present "The Children of the Plumed Serpent" at the LACMA

Dr. Pohl will be presenting on Saturday, April 14th 2012 at 2pm. The event is free and open to the public. You will not want to miss it. Jump to the link for more info: http://www.lacma.org/event/lecture-plumed-serpent

Upcoming Talks at Rancho Los Alamitos

Sunday, March 18, 2012 1pm and 2pm Favorite Tales of the Acjachemem People – Adelia Sandoval, Cultural Director of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, will delight all ages with tales of the native Acjachemem people. Two duplicate sessions. Reservations required. Sunday, March 18, 2012 3pm – 5pm A Native American Woman’s Perspective on Zorro – Adelia […]

DAY 2 AT “TEOTIHUACAN TO TENOCHTITLAN” AN HOMAGE TO ALFREDO LÓPEZ AUSTIN

Day two was spectacular. The presentations were inspiriational in terms of the level of scholarship that a human can achieve. Dr. López Austin’s talk was moving and gave insight into his life and his experience as a scholar. Dr. López Austin told us about his short lived career as a lawyer, and his abrupt switch to a less […]

Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan: Final Schedule Released

The AHS over at CSULA has finally released the schedule for their homenaje to Alfredo Lopez Austin. It appears that all of the headliners will indeed be presenting and attendees will be able to enjoy two full days of Mesoamerican scholarship. The schedule is as follows: Friday – February 10, 2012 9:30 am – 9:45 am Welcome and Opening Remarks Manuel Aguilar-Moreno […]

Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan Cultural Continuity in Central Mexico: More Information, Now $10

The Art History Society (AHS) at CSULA has given a more final announcement of their homage to one of the greatest Mesoamerican scholars of all time– Alfredo López Austin. The event went from being free to $10 ($5 for CSULA students), lets hope it does not increase any more. The event will be Feburary 10-11, 2012  at CUSLA […]

March 2012 at Rancho Los Alamitos

Every so often the Rancho has some great talks on their grounds, March 2012 promises to provide a few. I enjoy many of the talks at the Rancho because they provide an Indian perspective on many themes and issues in our popular culture. If that still does not sound appealing, most of the events are […]

Three UC Riverside Graduate Students to Present at RMCLAS 2011

    I along with Dominique E. Garcia (Art History), and Steven G. Anderson (History) will be presenting papers at the 2011 Rocky Mountain Conference for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS).  RMCLAS 2011 is from April 6 -9 and will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We will be presenting on Thursday from 3:00 – 4:50 […]

Presentation at SECOLAS 2011

I will be presenting my paper: “Naming, Cleansing, Imbuing: Aztec Midwives and Infant Ablution Ceremonies in Early Colonial Mexico.” at the SECOLAS 2011conference.  The conference is from March 16-19, 2011, and  will be hosted at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. I am scheduled to present on Friday March, 18 from 10:00 – 11:30 A.M in […]